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...In the nine years he was in that chair, he did more good than most of us manage to do in a lifetime.
I believe a man can fly. And Chris Reeve earned it.
Mike
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GTH, Troll. People like you give us who oppose abortion a bad rep. Jerk.
Some men may not want to hear this - but scientists have found women are better at holding their drink. Kentucky University researchers found men's loss of inhibition was three times greater than women's with the same blood alcohol levels.
"Thash why we ply the li'l honeys wish likker!"
Writing in the journal Addiction, they said the finding might explain why men are more likely to become aggressive.
"Shay! Who you callin' 'aggresshiv,' bub?"
It found men appeared to become more stimulated after drinking while women became more relaxed.
I'm still waiting for the real news.
The researchers gave 12 men and 12 women, all classed as "social drinkers" a set amount of alcohol each.
"Shay, bartenner! Drop a li'l gin in her Pink Lady, okay?"
They then tested their ability to hit a button at the right time when a symbol flashed up. Participants had to hit a green button when a green symbol flashed up. If a blue symbol appeared, they were told not to hit anything.
"Thash what they alwaysh tell me! 'Fred, try not to hit anyshing!'"
People became less able to prevent themselves hitting the green key when a blue symbol appeared the more drunk they became. But the men's performance was around three times worse than the women's.
"Thash 'cuz we're lookin' at the wimmin, dummy!"
The participants were then asked to evaluate the effect they thought alcohol had on them, rating how well certain adjectives applied to them. The men reported levels of stimulation, including aggression, confidence and loss of inhibition, which were two and a half times higher than women, In contrast, the women reported a six times higher level of sedation than the men.
"It just puts me to sleep!"
Writing in Addition, the researchers led by psychologist Dr Mark Fillimore, said: "The gender difference in response inhibition could reflect differences in alcohol-induced arousal in men and women. Men reported increased stimulation and women reported increased sedation in response to alcohol."
"Thash wha' they said in t'other paragraph!"
They added: "Evidence that men report greater stimulation than women could reflect a basic gender difference in the degree to which alcohol increases arousal that might also contribute to disinhibited behaviour."
"Thash what we're lookin' for! Dish... Dish... Uninhibited behavior!"
The team suggested that biological and psychological differences could explain why men and women respond to alcohol differently.
"Shay! I never thought o' that!"
"Social and cultural learning cannot be ruled out as a causal factor.
"Now, Myrtle! Be careful not to drink too much! You'll never get a hubby if you puke in public!"
"For example, men and women differ in the types of effects that they expect from alcohol, and such expectations could influence behaviour under the drug." Dr Fillimore added: "There is a general supposition that women don't hold their liquor very well but our results show that it is men who become uninhibited and get a high more quickly."
"We hadda few drinks — eleven or twelve, maybe — an' then we danced! 'Least I thought we wuz dancin', 'til she stepped on my hand..."
Jim Orford, professor of psychology at Birmingham University, told the Sunday Times newspaper: "Women on average are entering drinking situations a bit more cautiously, whereas men have less reservation about how they are going to behave, with more expectation that they're going to get stimulated."
"Yeah! Bring on the rum! Hrarrr!"
He added: "If men go out in order to feel stimulated - they're 'up for it' - then they're going to feel more stimulated. If women are going out in order to relax, then at the same blood-alcohol level they're going to feel more relaxed and sedated." A spokeswoman for Alcohol Concern told BBC News Online: "We need to see more evidence to back these conclusions up."
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LOL. Classic remarks.
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Beer Goggles
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"We need to see more evidence to back these conclusions up."
Uh... Just go to the bar and look around in a college town -- hell, any town will do. How much did they spend on this study? Who are the geniuses who put it together? I want their job.
Women will not vote in Saudi Arabia's municipal elections, the first nationwide polls to be held in the autocratic kingdom, the interior minister said in remarks published Monday, dashing the hopes of progressives who see such participation as vital to reform. An electoral official said administrative reasons were behind the decision to ban women from running or voting in the municipal elections to be held in three stages next year. The official, who spoke on customary condition of anonymity, said there are not enough women to run women's only registration centers and polling stations, and only a fraction have photo identity cards. Many women in this devoutly Muslim kingdom balked against getting the ID cards - introduced in 2001 - because the pictures would show their faces unveiled. Saudi women have limited freedoms. They cannot travel, get an education or a job, or check into a hotel alone without written approval of a male guardian. They cannot drive, mix with men in public or leave home without covering themselves with black cloaks, called abayas.
"We were hoping for the participation of women, and there was a lot of talk and candidates who had prepared themselves to run," said Hussein Shobokshi, a Jiddah businessman. "The country is in a mind set that could accept the participation" of women, said Shobokshi, an advocate of women's rights. Hatoun al-Fassi, a historian who had been encouraging women to stand in the polls, said Nayef's comment required clarification, since he had not explained why women could not take part. She said women were waiting for an official statement that would give reasons for the decision. "That will give us room for negotiation and enough time to come up with solutions to any obstacles," al-Fassi told The Associated Press. Registration begins in November. Polling will start Feb. 10 in the capital, Riyadh, and the surrounding central area. Voting in the eastern and southwestern regions are to follow, starting March 3. Voters in northern areas will go to the polls April 21. The elections are part of the government's measured response to calls for political and social change. Saudi Arabia, an absolute monarchy, has an unelected Consultative Council that acts like a parliament. Political parties are banned and press freedoms are limited. The Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States spurred calls for the Saudi royal family to modernize the country's political landscape. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers involved in Sept. 11 were Saudis.
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Let's see.
To vote, you need an ID. Check.
Not many women have ID's. Check.
So not many women will vote. Check.
But do women need ID cards to work at the polling places? Maybe but article didn't say.
Just pay them to work at polling places if there aren't enough women available with ID's. Have ID holders supervise. Plus, those who vote will encourage others to get ID, helping security situation.
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Don't get wrapped up in too much logic, Chicago Mike. This is Saudi Arabia we are talking about. The issue of women voting in SA should be looked upon as a Zen koan. That way you won't blow your binnacle over it. Heh heh.
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Saudi women have whupped spirits from livin with those curvy knifed guys to long.
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Indoctrinated from birth to their "position" within Wahhabi "society" - it would never even occur to 90% that they could or should vote - or get ID - or have a life. The programming goes the other way.
Saudi Arabia yesterday warned non-Muslim foreign residents of the kingdom that they face deportation if they eat, drink or smoke in public from dawn to dusk during the fasting month of Ramadan. "Non-Muslim residents of this country must respect Muslims' feelings by refraining from eating, drinking or smoking in public places, in the streets and in workplaces" during the fast, an interior ministry statement said. "Authorities will take deterrent measures, namely beating the stuffing out of offenders ending work (contracts) of and deporting violators," said the statement carried by the official SPA news agency.
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Some in the west seem to want to outdo the Saudis - though for very different reasons, of course:
10/10/04
Crazy council bosses want staff to report people who smoke in their own homes, and refuse to stub out their cigarettes.
The barmy idea, dreamed up by health and safety chiefs, is revealed in a Birmingham City Council memo leaked to the Sunday Mercury.
It says that staff, such as social workers and home helps, could be at risk from passive smoking during house visits. The memo orders employees to tell tenants, including pensioners or housebound residents, to put out their ciggies - or face being reported.
Other staff who could be asked to impose the barmy ban include trading standards or licensing officers, who frequently visit smoke-filled buildings like pubs or bars.
Last night, smokersâ group FOREST blasted the idea as âan invasion of basic human rightsâ.
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I think Ramadan was the single worst thing about being stuck in the Saudi shithole. Emulating it would be suicide (politically, anyway) anywhere in the US, excepting the Peoples Republik of Berkeley, San "Shoot Your Officers" Fagcisco, and the Uncommonwealth of Massadipshits that keep electing J.Fn. Skeery and Teddy "pearldiver" Kennedy.
ABU DHABI - Opec vowed yesterday to do what it can to deflate record high oil prices that have soared above $53 a barrel, and top exporter Saudi Arabia promised to keep the world supplied with as much oil as it needs. Saudi Oil Minister Ali Al Naimi said Riyadh would hold 1.5-2.0 million barrels per day (bpd) of production capacity in reserve but urged global consumers to upgrade refining capacity to handle the extra sour barrels being pumped by the kingdom. With the 11-member Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries already stretching pumping rates beyond 30 million bpd, a 25-year high, only Saudi Arabia has production to spare. "We are pumping around 9.5 million bpd now and if our customers want more crude it's available," Naimi told reporters ahead of the Adipec 2004 oil exhibition in Abu Dhabi.
AT $53 a barrel I'll bet they'll pump everything they can.
"There is no shortage of oil and there will be no shortage of oil and we are willing to meet demand as it rises," he said. "We plan to maintain spare capacity of 1.5-2.0 million barrels a day for the foreseeable future," he added. "We are ahead of demand, capacity-wise, by 1.5 million barrels per day." Riyadh has said for several months it will meet all its customers' needs, but the vow has failed to cool oil prices, which hit $53, a barrel on Friday.Â
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Any body else expect the price of oil to fall dramatically on November 3? I expect Soros to begin covering his futures contracts then and all those specutively holding inventories to quickly bail. It is a shame, because there is an ultimate oil problem. Moderately rising prices would send signals that the economy could use to develop the proper balance of alternative fuels and conservation. This kind of erratic price movement does not provide useful information to the markets.
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Teflon engine runs on ethanol. Doesn't need servicing or oil change as it burns clean.
ethanol can be distributed to existing service stations.
would cost a bomb in government expenditure to pay for everyone to convert their vehicles, enforce legislation that all new cars must be fitted with teflon engines.
then our dependance on saudi black slag would be greatly, greatly reduced. we could stop paying jihadi murderers.
I would happily treble my tax payments for that honour.
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well actually i am here guilty of typing off the top of my head.
Your car engine can be converted to run on ethanol instead of petrol. In the past, US farm machinery was run on ethanol, as are/were race cars (it is high-performance fuel). The problem with ethanol is that it is very corrosive.
Somebody told me the other day that the Japanese had made a teflon engine (ie: coated like your frypans) so it wouldn't corrode on contact with ethanol.
It is true that ethanol burns clean producing only carbon dioxide and water, and the oil never needs changing.
Several car companies have released cars that run on ethanol which i posted here a while back.
here is a discussion board for motor enthusiasts (well, car hoons) that discus the technicalities of using ethanol instead of petrol:
http://www.hotrodders.com/t48947.html
And here is a very informative site telling you how to go about using ethanol instead of Saudi Black Slag as fuel:
Given a bit of time, trouble and money, ANY of you out there could take these specs to a mechanic and convert your car to run on ethanol. Stop giving money to terrorists today!
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I think I'll run your teflon-coated engine idea past a friend of mine who designs airplane engines for GE. Google came up with some interesting sites on teflon lubricants for airplanes/boats, and so forth, but I prefer the opinion of someone who knows a great deal more than I do.
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There's another problem the Sauds don't mention: their production capacity depends on a handful, perhaps only two, major facilities that are extremely vulnerable to an AQ or other terrorist disruption. Bob Baer highlighted these in his books and argued that little was being done (as of writing in 2002) to secure these facilities.
If jihadists knock out one or both of these production facilities, Saudi reserve capacity evaporates, and the price of oil will go to $60+ overnight.
Mark Steyn posted on his web site the column The Daily Telegraph refused to publish.
Today, for the first time in all my years with the Telegraph Group, I had a column pulled. The editor expressed concerns about certain passages and we were unable to reach agreement, so on this Tuesday something else will be in my space.
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"Iâd written about Kenneth Bigley, seized with two American colleagues but unlike them not beheaded immediately. Instead, sensing that they could exploit potential differences within âthe coalition of the willingâ, for three weeks the Islamists played a cat-and-mouse game with Mr Bigleyâs life, in which Fleet Street, the British public, governments in London and Dublin and Islamic lobby groups in the United Kingdom were far too willing to participate. As I always say, in this war the point is not whether youâre sad about the dead people, but what youâre prepared to do about it. What âBritainâ â from Ken Bigleyâs brother to the Foreign Secretary â did was make it more likely that other infidels will meet his fate."
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The game worked fine with Arroyo and the Filipinos, so they gave it a shot.
"Paul Bigley can be forgiven his clumsiness: heâs a freelancer winging it. But the feelers put out by the Foreign Office to Ken Bigleyâs captors are more disturbing: by definition, they confer respectability on the head-hackers and increase the likelihood that Britons and other infidels will be seized and decapitated in the future. The United Kingdom, like the government of the Philippines when it allegedly paid a ransom for the release of its Iraqi hostages, is thus assisting in the mainstreaming of jihad."
The beginning of the end of the UK lies within this paragraph.
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If youâre kidnapped, accept youâre unlikely to survive, say âIâll show you how an Englishman diesâ, and wreck the video. If they want you to confess youâre a spy, make a little mischief: there are jihadi from Britain, Italy, France, Canada and other western nations all over Iraq â so say yes, youâre an MI6 agent, and so are those Muslims from Tipton and Luton who recently joined the al-Qaeda cells in Samarra and Ramadi. As Churchill recommended in a less timorous Britain: You can always take one with you.
{He he he ...}
Yeah all them boys from Dearborn and Buffalo hangin' out in Fallujah workin' with me & the CIA...
Australian Prime Minister John Howard has said national security and the economy will be priorities for his fourth term in office. After the success of his conservative coalition in Saturday's election, Mr Howard confirmed he would keep Australian troops in and around Iraq. Australia has 900 troops stationed in the Gulf on non-combat missions. The prime minister also pledged to keep the economy strong, and to continue cooperation "against terrorism". The BBC's Phil Mercer in Sydney says Mr Howard is also expected to pursue closer trade and defence ties with Australia's South East Asian neighbours.
In the first news conference of his fourth term, Mr Howard said the strong mandate his National-Liberal coalition received would not lead to radical change. "We're not going to allow this enhanced position to go to our heads," he told reporters on Monday. "That would be a big mistake and the Australian public would not appreciate it," he added. During the election campaign the prime minister promised to improve his country's anti-terrorism efforts across South East Asia. They include plans to deploy squads of Australian police officers in neighbouring countries and to establish a joint intelligence training centre. Our correspondent says trade is also expected to be a key feature of the re-elected Howard government. Trade agreements have already been signed with the United States, Singapore, and Thailand. Similar deals with China and Malaysia may follow. On the domestic front, the administration is expected to try to overhaul industrial legislation to reduce the power of trade unions. It is also planning to sell off the government's remaining multi-billion dollar share in Australia's national telecommunications network.
The National-Liberal coalition was returned to office with an increased majority in the lower house, as well as a possible 38-seat blocking majority in the senate. The final results are not expected until later this month, owing to a complex voting system. Mr Howard has presided over a period of great prosperity - a key advantage in the election given the inexperience of the Labor opposition leader, Mark Latham. Mr Latham said he wanted to remain Labor leader, despite criticism of his campaign.
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Lets get one thing straight, Howard:
I voted for you so you could kick out the illegal immigrants (often mis-labelled refugees) and to keep our alliance with the USA strong.
I voted for you because I recognise the war on terrorism is in fact a war on Global Islamism driven by fundamentalist wahhabist sunnis.
I on the other hand, like to work in a unionised workplace, I like medicare and I like the environment.
But how can I vote Labour when to do so puts at risk our allies?
If I have to sacrifice my working conditions to keep the alliance with the USA strong and defeat fundamentalist islamists then I will willingly do so and bear the burden.
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Anon1, most illegal immigrants staying in Australia are in fact citizens from Britain, the US and other western countries, they simply over-stay their visa, if you don't know this, then get informed. As far as illegal refugees, we only get a trickle here, you should know.
If labor had won, they alliance would have remained strong, there's much more to it than just a change of political parties.
Now however, as you have rightly pointed out, say goodbye to medicare (including the pbs), industrial relations and the environment. Next time, don't be so short sighted.
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Igster, I don't mind those who overstay their visas.
They applied at the consulate and got their visas in the first place. The country knows who they are.
It is the ones who refuse to apply at a consulate that I mind coming in: those that come with no ID at all and could be anyone.
They are the most likely to be criminals and jihadis and those are the ones that pretend to be refugees (after safely transiting several intermediate countries).
Unfortunately for YOU Igster, most Aussies agree with ME so we have Howard/Costello for 3 more years.
And there's no denying they are excellent economic managers. We finally have a budget SURPLUS.
My fear is for the unions. It was good having strong unions who fought for worker entitlements.
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Also, the Americans are NOT stupid, Igster, despite the smug fantasies of the left.
They remember Latham saying that Bush was the 'most dangerous man in the world today' 'the worst president in history' and that Howard etc were a conga line of suckholes for supporting them in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Latham also made the mistake of painting the war on Islamism as a regional war for us: focus on the region, on JI, on the Phillipines. That is useless when the enemy organises globally.
A regional response to a global threat? hahaha.
Break away from the Brits and the US and make alliances with... Indonesia... Malaysia?
Yeah right. They'll be worth the paper their written on. yassss .
the anglosphere are their own best allies as time and test have proven.
(2004-10-10) -- French President Jacques Chirac announced today that Jacques Derrida, the father of the intellectual movement called deconstructionism, died yesterday of pancreatic cancer, "if indeed 'death' can be said to mean anything beyond the biases of culture, language, religion and philosophy."
"Of course, we can't assert anything positively about Monsieur Derrida's recent failure to exist," said Mr. Chirac, "We can't even state that he ever did exist, since he may have been a mere metaphysical projection of our own prejudices against absolutes. However, in as much as we may categorically claim anything--Mr. Derrida will not likely be showing up for work tomorrow. Although, who is to say?"
Mr. Derrida's many books and teachings spawned legions of American college professors whose stock-in-trade is to "deconstruct" literature and philosophy in order to demonstrate that, for example, the so-called classics of Western literature are so distorted by their authors' cultural prejudices as to render them useful only for literary deconstruction.
"Monsieur Derrida bequeathed a magnificent legacy to the global intellectual community," said Mr. Chirac. "He has provided us all with the intellectual infrastructure to prevent us from seeking after truth. Thanks to him we know it is fruitless to assert anything with conviction, or to say that any ideology is less true than any other. They are all equally trifling. Their value, if any, lies only in the sport they provide for college professors."
In lieu of flowers, friends of Mr. Derrida are urged to devote their lives to convincing at least one young person that there is nothing to which it is worth devoting one's life.
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This just in: In other news, Fransisco Franco still dead!
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In lieu of flowers, friends of Mr. Derrida are urged to devote their lives to convincing at least one young person that there is nothing to which it is worth devoting oneâs life
This with the image of Chiraq's nose planted firmly up Saddam's ass uppermost in their thoughts.
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As a matter of fact, I spent the afternoon yesterday ululating. My wife didn't understand what the big deal was, but I'm glad this piece of dogshit has done all the damage he's going to.
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Good riddance. I was getting tired of his insistance on the lococentrisim of artificiality we sometimes call "breathing", surely simply a placeholder for the metaphor of life...
Unfortunately, the Spawn of Satan live on:
http://www.postanarki.net/saul9.htm
Note: Only available to Wall Street Journal Online subscribers, so I give you the whole article. After slipping into reverse in August, the Canadian job-creation machine revved back into overdrive in September, creating more than twice as many jobs as expected and in the process driving bond yields higher and cementing expectations for two more rate increases this year. The Canadian dollar jumped and bond yields surged Friday after Statistics Canada reported that Canada created 43,200 jobs in September, compared with the expected 15,000, and that the unemployment rate dropped to 7.1%. Analysts had expected the rate to remain steady at the 7.2% recorded in August, when employment declined by 7,000. Analysts saw the report as further confirmation of the underlying strength and resilience of the Canadian economy, even as the Canadian dollar's rise is likely to start to crimp exports. "The domestic side of the economy is still fairly strong, and that's carrying the day whether you look at consumer spending, investment activity or indeed government spending," said Craig Wright, chief economist at RBC Financial Group. The strength in the key jobs data is reinforcing expectations the Bank of Canada will continue the monetary tightening it began in September.
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America's mayor, who fought organzied crime and terror, knows of what he speaks.... now, back to football and Astros...
"For some time, and including when I spoke at the Republican Convention, I've wondered exactly what John Kerry's approach would be to terrorism and I've wondered whether he had the conviction, the determination, and the focus, and the correct worldview to conduct a successful war against terrorism. And his quotations in the New York Times yesterday make it clear that he lacks that kind of committed view of the world. In fact, his comments are kind of extraordinary, particularly since he thinks we used to before September 11 live in a relatively safe world. He says we have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance.
"I'm wondering exactly when Senator Kerry thought they were just a nuisance. Maybe when they attacked the USS Cole? Or when they attacked the World Trade Center in 1993? Or when they slaughtered the Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972? Or killed Leon Klinghoffer by throwing him overboard? Or the innumerable number of terrorist acts that they committed in the 70s, the 80s and the 90s, leading up to September 11?
"This is so different from the President's view and my own, which is in those days, when we were fooling ourselves about the danger of terrorism, we were actually in the greatest danger. When you don't confront correctly and view realistically the danger that you face, that's when you're at the greatest risk. When you at least realize the danger and you begin to confront it, then you begin to become safer. And for him to say that in the good old days — I'm assuming he means the 90s and the 80s and the 70s — they were just a nuisance, this really begins to explain a lot of his inconsistent positions on how to deal with it because he's not defining it correctly.
"As a former law enforcement person, he says 'I know we're never going to end prostitution. We're never going to end illegal gambling. But we're going to reduce it.' This is not illegal gambling; this isn't prostitution. Having been a former law enforcement person for a lot longer than John Kerry ever was, I don't understand his confusion. Even when he says 'organized crime to a level where it isn't not on the rise,' it was not the goal of the Justice Department to just reduce organized crime. It was the goal of the Justice Department to eliminate organized crime. Was there some acceptable level of organized crime: two families, instead of five, or they can control one union but not the other?
The idea that you can have an acceptable level of terrorism is frightening. How do you explain that to the people who are beheaded or the innocent people that are killed, that we're going to tolerate a certain acceptable [level] of terrorism, and that acceptable level will exist and then we'll stop thinking about it? This is an extraordinary statement. I think it is not a statement that in any way is ancillary. I think this is the core of John Kerry's thinking. This does create some consistency in his thinking.
"It is consistent with his views on Vietnam: that we should have left and abandoned Vietnam. It is consistent with his view of Nicaragua and the Sandinistas. It is consistent with his view of opposing Ronald Reagan at every step of the way in the arms buildup that was necessary to destroy communism. It is consistent with his view of not supporting the Persian Gulf War, which was another extraordinary step. Whatever John Kerry's global test is, the Persian Gulf War certainly would pass anyone's global test. If it were up to John Kerry, Saddam Hussein would not only still be in power, but he'd still be controlling Kuwait.
"Finally, what he did after the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, where I guess at that point terrorism was still just a nuisance. He must have thought that because that's why he proposed seriously reducing our intelligence budget, when you would think someone who was really sensitive to the problem of terrorism would have done just the opposite. I think that rather than being some aberrational comment, it is the core of the John Kerry philosophy: that terrorism is no different than domestic law enforcement problems, and that the best we're ever going to be able to do is reduce it, so why not follow the more European approach of compromising with it the way Europeans did in the 70s and the 80s and the 90s?
"This is so totally different than what I think was the major advance that President Bush made — significant advance that he made in the Bush Doctrine on September 20, 2001, when he said we're going to face up to terrorism and we're going to do everything we can to defeat it, completely. There's no reason why we have to tolerate global terrorism, just like there's no reason to tolerate organized crime.
"So I think this is a seminal issue, this is one that explains or ties together a lot of things that we've talked about. Even this notion that the Kerry campaign was so upset that the Vice President and others were saying that he doesn't understand the threat of terrorism; that he thinks it's just a law enforcement action. It turns out the Vice President was right. He does and maybe this is a difference, maybe this is an honest difference that we really should debate straight out. He thinks that the threat is not as great as at least the President does, and I do, and the Vice President does."
Hat Tip M. Drudge --- Bush's campaign office in Spokane burglarized, vandalized By David Postman Seattle Times chief political reporter Offices that house President Bush's re-election campaign in Spokane were broken into and vandalized last night, the latest in a string of crimes at Republican offices across the country. Workers arriving this morning found a hole smashed through the wall from an adjacent, vacant office. Bush campaign officials say a small amount of petty cash is missing and a computer and television had been moved and left near the hole. Left computer behind? fear of Trojan horse virus? Oh, landlord! What kind of dodos are you renting to...
"They must have gotten spooked because they ultimately left the computer and TV," said Bill Hyslop, the campaign's chairman for the Fifth Congressional District. The computer and the TV had recently arrived in Spokane and the computer was loaded with information from the Republican get-out-the vote program. Spokane police responded this morning and took the computer's monitor and the TV, Hyslop said. Fingerprints only, I hope.
"We obviously have no idea who did this and are not going to cast aspersions," said Hyslop, who served as U.S. attorney in Spokane under President George H.W. Bush. In Bellevue last week , computers that stored the Republican get-out-the-vote database were stolen in a burglary at the Republican headquarters there . Bush campaign officials believe the break - ins are part of a broader attack on the president's re-election offices around the country, including a burglary in Canton, Ohio, last night, gun shots fired in West Virginia, Florida and Tennessee and union protestors storming offices in three Florida cities and Minneapolis. Geez, Canton OH too!?!?!?!?!?!
There are no suspects in the burglaries or shootings and no injuries were reported. Because the protests at campaign offices that were stormed were part of organized union demonstrations, Bush campaign chairman Marc Racicot wrote a letter today to AFL-CIO President John Sweeney asking him to call off any future protests. "In addition to the injuries, property damage and disruption associated with these acts, these events have created a threatening and intimidating atmosphere abhorrent to our democratic process," Racicot wrote.
I'm sure he'll get right on that...
The Spokane building leased by the state Republican party and serves as the area office for party operations as well as the campaign for the President and other Republican candidates Hyslop said that a security guard checked the building at about 6 a.m. today and did not report any disturbance. But when construction crews working on the adjacent office arrived within 30 minutes later, they noticed the back door of the adjacent office had been pried open from an alleyway. Security Guard?
They also discovered that a hole appeared to have been kicked through the drywall separating the vacant space from the Bush offices. The computer and TV were found near the hole. Uh-huh
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"In addition to the injuries, property damage and disruption associated with these acts, these events have created a threatening and intimidating atmosphere abhorrent to our democratic process," Racicot wrote.
Crawford, Texas - American President George Bush's tactic heading into the third and final presidential debate this week is to paint his opponent John Kerry as a dangerous leftist who wants to increase the government's role in public life.
Kerry wants to empower government, Bush wants to use government to empower individuals: it's a theme that Bush has been repeating, and voters can expect to hear it drummed home again in the final televised showdown in Tempe, Arizona on Wednesday.
"Much as he tried to obscure it, on issue after issue, my opponent showed why he earned the ranking of the most liberal member of the US Senate," Bush said to cheers from supporters during a rally in the northern state of Minnesota on Saturday.
That message could win votes in the United States, where the term "liberal" is often considered an insult. Bush describes himself as a "compassionate conservative," a slogan he used in 2000 and throughout his political career.
'We're throwing labels around'
"We're throwing labels around," is how Kerry handled the salvo in the second presidential debate, in St Louis on Friday.
"I mean, compassionate conservative? What does that mean? Cutting 500 000 kids from after-school programmes? Cutting 365 000 kids from healthcare? Running up the biggest deficits in American history? Labels don't mean anything," Kerry said.
Kerry has represented one of the most left-leaning states in the country, Massachusetts, in the Senate for 20 years.
"You're going to hear a lot more about Senator Kerry's record in the coming days," Bush strategist Karl Rove advised.
The president allowed himself a day of rest at his ranch in Crawford, Texas on Sunday to prepare for the final debate on Wednesday.
Clearly bested by his rival in their first debate on national security and the Iraq war, in Miami on October 1, Bush rebounded in the second match, with questions on all subjects posed by members of the audience.
Kerry's strong showing in Miami enabled him to catch up with Bush in voter polls, putting the White House race into a dead heat. The third debate is to focus on domestic themes; questions will be posed by a moderator.
Bush appeared far more at ease with the format of the second debate, a so-called town-hall style event in which citizens asked questions, allowing the president to address the public with his trademark informality.
But Kerry seems better suited to the more formal format of the first and third debate, which do not involve direct participation by the public.
Attacked by Kerry on the Iraq war, Bush is now trying to steer the campaign back into the domestic arena. Even though his record is mixed on that score, it allows him to recycle arguments he used against his Democratic opponent of four years ago, Al Gore.
"He says he's going to have a novel healthcare plan. You know what it is? The federal government is going to run it," Bush charged during the debate in St Louis on Friday.
"That's what liberals do: they create government-sponsored healthcare. Maybe you think that makes sense; I don't. Government-sponsored healthcare would lead to rationing. It would ruin the quality of health care in America," he said.
Polls have shown that Americans consistently consider Kerry stronger on issues of healthcare and the economy. If Bush can close that gap, he will increase his chance at victory on November 2. - Sapa-AFP
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What? I am astonished. This can't be true. Skerry a leftist? I am flabbergasted. Are you sure George? Now, don't be insensitive.
On Fox this morning, the news folks couldn't hear over the din of the Communists for Kerry demonstrating outside. That should be clear to America where this clown stands. If Al Queda could vote for Kerry they would.
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He can't do that.....that's political profiling!
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The boys over at Communists for Kerry have Kerry's number :)
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JOHN FUND ON THE TRAIL Getting Physical: Union thugs target Republicans.
We may be about to experience an election unlike any we've seen in a while. The Florida recount in 2000 raised passions and blood pressure and featured some demonstrations on both sides, but there was no violence. This year, lots of groups are jostling with each other to monitor the elections in battleground states. For its part, the AFL-CIO has promised to dispatch thousands of election monitors to battleground states to watch for any hint of trouble at polling places. From the initial reports, they may be the ones for have to be watched as potential troublemakers. Solution : Some of the elderly poll workers are bound to have a substantial grandson (football player or wrestler) who, being physically as intimidating as any union manure, may help keep the discourse to monitoring...
Last week, in Orlando, Fla., approximately 60 union criminals protestors stormed and ransacked the local Bush-Cheney headquarters causing considerable damage and injuring one campaign staffer, who suffered a broken wrist. The new Democratic Party. Taking its cues from the Mexican PRI.
According to an Orlando Police Department report, Rhyan Metzler, a field director for the Republican Party, was at the headquarters about 1 p.m. last Tuesday when 60 protestors barged in. Van Church, a 53-year old protestor a little old isn't he?,
forced the door open and caused Mr. Metzler's arm to be caught in it. His left wrist was fractured in the altercation. Police say Mr. Church will be charged with two counts of battery. Suggesting stuffing something into a wooden crate, and shipping him to Fallujah is not practical.
But Mr. Church is unrepentant. "If his wrist was fractured, it's a result of his own actions in jerking the door the way he did," he told the Orlando Sentinel. "He jerked the door out of my hand and cut it in the process." But since it is Mr. Church who is being charged, the police apparently didn't think Mr. Metzler did anything wrong. Fancy that!
Orlando's fracas was mirrored in Miami, where police reported that more than 100 union protestors stormed the Bush-Cheney office and shoved volunteers aside. No one was charged because most of the protestors left before the police arrived. In Tampa, about 35 protestors filled the local GOP office and intimidated the elderly volunteers working there. See my above comment about a wrestling grandson
The AFL-CIO took credit on its Web site for similar demonstrations--apparently all coordinated--in Independence, Mo., Kansas City, Mo., Dearborn, Mich., St. Paul, Minn., and West Allis, Wis. In what could be a related incident, the Bush-Cheney office in Knoxville, Tenn., had its plate-glass windows shattered by gunfire on Tuesday morning before volunteers showed up for work. Another Republican office, in Seattle, was broken into and had computer files stolen. Stolen computers? What the GOP should do is have a "bait" computer out in the open, with a bunch of trojan horse viruses in it, then when the Dems steal it, they get a nasty surprise when they put the stolen files (which are actually outdated, but made to look new) on thier own equipment.
Esmerelda Aguilar, an AFL-CIO spokesman, says Republicans are "trying to politicize [the Orlando incident] and exaggerate the event." She maintains that all of the demonstrations "were peaceful protests" designed to call attention to new Bush administration regulations on overtime pay. Hmm - Broken wrist in a "peaceful" demonstration. Union thugs haven't changed much... it goes on...Read it all...
Maybe time to dispatch the National Guard to guard the polling places.
(For those who dont know the 'brownshirts' were the thugs used by the Nazi party to imtimidate those who were opposed to it as well as create a climate of fear so people would vote for Hitler because he said he would restore 'law and order' - failing to mention that the thugs were from his own party.) Please correct me if I'm wrong.
It is ironic that the DNC is employing Nazi tactics to accuse conservatives (with not a shread of evidence) of being Nazis..... Its called projection...
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A twelve gauge loaded with pumpkin balls can do a hell of alot more than pepper spray. The next time this happens, the traitors need to die in a hail of gunfire. What these people are doing should be considered rebellion and treason and they should pay the price for it.
Severely EFL - Be sure to read the rest. Hat tip: Tim Blair
This is spooky:
Many of us have been astounded over the years at the ease with which the Democratic Party Labor Party has progressively abandoned the cause of the workers and, in its place, adopted every ratbag cause that comes along. Perhaps it is because so few in the parliamentary party like Kennedy, Lurch, et at. have ever been workers themselves. They are certainly more at home with a cafe latte than a bottle of beer cup of tea.
But even so, to watch the party so blithely sacrifice the jobs of Alaskan oil workers Tasmanian timber workers in the interest of saving tundra trees tundra, fercrissakes! (trees!) was breathtaking. And for what return? To curry favour with the trendy Left in New York and the UN Sydney and Hollywood and Phrawnce Melbourne and, even then, to get no benefit from doing so. From your pen to God's ear.
Fingers crossed that he can write the same thing about America on November 3d.
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You are traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind, a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. Thatâs the signpost up ahead. Your next stopâThe Twilight ZoneROD SERLING
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Talk about pressure. I'm never going to be able to look an Australian in the eye if we can't pull this off. I'll be mumbling apologies to empty bottles of Shiraz.
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Uncanny. The Dems are becoming a regional party of francophile bicoastal ex-hippy/current yuppies, gazillionaire Wall Streeters, Hollywood idjuts, San Francisco socialites.
This is a party that sneers at the religiosity of the American public (never mind that its core african-american voters are deeply religious), cannot comprehend the public's disenchantment with statism, and is clueless as to how to grasp the reluctance of the public to embrace gay marriage.
Does anyone else sense that the polls are not at all indicative of what will happen Nov 2-- that most of the swing voters find gay marriage repulsive and Kerry completely lacking in credibility, and that Bush may therefore end up with over 55% of the vote?
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Lex, I think what the polls can't capture very reliably is how enthusiastic people are about getting out of bed and pulling the lever for each candidate. I find it very hard to imagine that there are a lot of people out there who really look forward to Kerry being president.(Undoubtedly there are a lot of Bush-haters out there; but I suspect a lot of those folks on the appointed day will be content to express their hatred by staying home out of cynicism.) Or in other words: I think it will come down to getting out the base, and I think that Bush has more to work with on that count than Kerry does.
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Until the day of the California recall election LA Times polls had Cruz Bustamante neck and neck with Schwarzenegger. Sometimes polls can be manipulated, sometimes they simply ask the wrong question, or the wrong people.
Personally I think Lex is right and my guess is Democrat internal polling is showing them getting killed which is why we've seen burglaries and such at various Bush/Cheney headquarters around the nation, and why we've seen the first steps in an attempt to declare the election stolen.
Even if it wasn't for gay marriage etc, there is one issue this campaign for most Americans. That issue is foreign policy/defense. Kerry has produced a wobbly Bush lite foreign policy, covered it in a thin layer of Bullshit and lies, and claims everything will be better. I don't think most people will buy it come election day.
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rj's probably right. The state polls and the candidates' own internal polls point to a solid electoral college victory for Bush. Lost in all the MSM spin, the horse-race stuff, is the iron fact that voters generally and swing voters especally go for "character", not "issues".
Kerry's another Jimmy Carter. His ridiculous contortions, plus his flaming peacenik idiocies of recent days (give fuel to Iran, end bunker-busters, AQ as another mafia gang...) show him to be another clueless left-lib trying desperately and failing to speak sense on national security. This won't cut it during a time of great danger to national security. The voters know a wimp when they see one.
Also, remember that Carter won in 1976 only because of the pardon and a reversion to party-line voting by Dems. Four years later, party affiliation did not hold, and Carter was trounced. In 2004, party affiliation's much weaker than it was a quarter-century ago, and Kerry also is contending with a 100% anti-Iraq War candidate running to his left.
In sum, I think Bush will carry FL for sure, and probably OH or PA, along with a few other Dem midwestern must-wins like MN, WI, maybe even MI. In other words, an electoral college blowout.
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Any state that has a gay marriage referendum on the Nov 2 ballot should also be considered in play for (if not inclined toward) Bush. You'd never guess it from the way the MSM try to spin, ignore or bury the issue, but this is huge in the heartland, with Dems as well as Repubs (even Missouri defeated gay marriage by a landslide, with something like 65% of DEMOCRATS voting against it!).
The prospect of judges arbitrarily turning over about 10,000 years of human tradition will not go unpunished by the voters.
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Perhaps memory fails but I recall the polls showing Dukakis far ahead with weeks to go in 1988.
Most voters don't go through a checklist or lengthy decision trees before pulling the lever. At the end of the day, if the economy's not on its back, the choice will come down to whether they like and trust the guy, and Bush trounces Kerry on this score.
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For those of us that take the MSM and LLL with the grain of salt that is their due, this has all been obvious this whole election cycle. My brother and his friends have been *heavily* into politics since college. They fretted in '02 for nuaght while I laughed at them. They go through episodes of girly-men fretting now when the polls turn bad for Bush, when the MSM gets in a shot, when Jon bon Skerry gets a little oil in his joints... I laugh at them.
The majority knows that we are in the midst of a religious war, and anti-crusade if you will. They ain't going back to sKerry-land 9/10.
This election will be conclusive for Bush and the perhaps we will finally be able to get down to...
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I can summarize why Howard won and Labour lost in one short sentence. Howard stood for something coherent, while Labour put forward spin.
It was fascinating to watch the media judge the campaign on debating points and ignore the substantive issues/differences. And then afterwards agonize over why Howard won in landside, when they had judged it even.
The lesson was people are concerned with substance, and the media with trivia.
A forensic scientist studying photographic evidence has identified an object which caused a bump on the back of a suit jacket worn by President George Bush during his first debate with John Forbes Kerry.
"It's a spine," said the unnamed scientist. "The president's backbone, in a sense, was showing during his debate with Mr. Kerry."
Similar images of Mr. Kerry showed "no comparable spinal features."
When asked about the new evidence, Mr. Kerry said, "I had a spine when I defended this country as a young man, and I will have one again when I defend her as president of the United States."
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A two-Scrappleface day, eh?
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Similar images of Mr. Kerry showed "no comparable spinal features."
When it's made of soft rubber, it CAN be compressed, so it wouldn't show...
Mr. John Sweeney
President
AFL-CIO
815 16th Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20006
October 11, 2004
Dear Mr. Sweeney:
Over the past several weeks, acts of violence and vandalism have occurred at Republican and Bush-Cheney campaign headquarters across the country. In addition to the injuries, property damage and disruption associated with these acts, these events have created a threatening and intimidating atmosphere abhorrent to our democratic process.
On October 5th, according to news reports, witnesses, police reports and admissions of your members, the AFL-CIO, as part of a national strategy, protested at more than a dozen of our campaign and party headquarters across the country. In many locations, the protestors attempted to enter, or entered, campaign or party facilities. As one protestor said, "Actually, we're storming into an office." In Orlando, Florida, injuries and damage were sustained. Protestors forced their way into the facility, fracturing the arm of one staffer, and vandalized the office. In Michigan, protestors entered a headquarters and engaged in activities apparently intended to disrupt volunteers trying to make phone calls.
Protests by your organization come on the heels of several other incidents at Bush-Cheney '04 offices around the country, including a break-in at our Seattle office where laptop computers were stolen from the Washington State Bush-Cheney '04 executive director and the state Republican Party 72-hour director. Just last night in Canton, Ohio, a Bush-Cheney '04 staffer was forced to lock herself in an office while another break-in was in progress. The facility was seriously damaged and property was stolen. Additionally, gun shots have been fired into Bush-Cheney '04 offices in West Virginia, Florida and Tennessee, windows broken in West Virginia and campaign staffers threatened. In Wisconsin, a supporter of the President had a swastika burned into his front yard simply because he had a Bush-Cheney '04 lawn sign. We urge your support in helping us ensure the safety of all individuals working on our campaign and others as we are making every effort to secure the safety of all participants in the political process.
I hope you will put an end to the rampaging brute squads protest activities that have led to injuries, property damage, vandalism and voter intimidation. We will hold you and your organization accountable for the actions of your members and urge you to immediately discontinue any coordinated protest efforts that result in damage to our facilities, or injury to people who may hold different political views than your members, but who share an equal right to be involved in the political process without suffering violence, intimidation and threats.
Respectfully,
Gov. Marc Racicot, Bush-Cheney '04 Campaign Chairman
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I'm sure the DNC will be out shortly with a counter saying Grove was behind it all.
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This election may cause my Dad's head to explode, as he tries to square his absolute disgust for Democrats with his staunch support for the Teamsters.
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Racicot is from Montana. An honorable fellow, but unfortunately he probably does not realize certain things. In places where there are large concentrations of people, unlike Montana, you tend to have borderline psychotic elements. These sorts are malleable by any dishonorable doofus who can talk without burping, (even sometimes burping is useful). You then can have problems. This is because these same borderline psychotic elements can be incited by that doofus to do violent things so easily. It is a sort of mass hypnosis. The president of a large labor union gives a wink and a nod to the doofus who does the rabble-rousing.
This time its Colorado With less than a month until Election Day, Colorado's registration rolls include as many as 6,000 felons who should be ineligible to vote. Election officials have failed to prevent state prisoners and parolees from registering or casting ballots. Records show felons have voted as recently as the August primary, despite a law forbidding it. Secretary of State Donetta Davidson said she was unaware of potential problems until she was asked about a Denver Post comparison of voter registrations to felons currently in the Department of Corrections system. ... "Did I look at it when I took office? No. Could I have looked at it? Yes," said Davidson, a Republican, and Colorado's election chief since 1999. "I had no idea we had that type of numbers." Davidson plans this week to convene an emergency meeting of clerks from Colorado's 64 counties to try to keep prisoners and parolees from voting in November. State law says that "no person while serving a sentence of detention or confinement in a correctional facility, jail, or other location or while serving a sentence of parole shall be eligible to register to vote or to vote in any election ...." Wonder who signed these convicts up? Well lets look at one of them in one day that did 77
The Colorado Voting Project signed up 77 voters Sept. 29 in the Denver County Jail. A quick google brings them on on the Conservation Voters site, and a flyer with "Colorado Progressive Coalition" and ACORn - the same old fraud-meisters. And as a bonus, they get LARASA.ORG for a bit of hispanic flavor to the voter fraud. There you have it - more of the left's attempts to win by fraud since they cannot win on the issues legitimately.
They're getting real solid support this election from their base constituencies: the dead, the non-existent, and the orange-jumpsuiters...
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I am getting so damed tired of digging beneath the srufae of nearly every one of these fraud cases and finding the same roaches scurrying away - ACRON, and other leftists organization. ANd there are far too many instances for this to be just a coincidence anymore - this is a systematic attempt to defraud the electorate and the nation by gaming and illegally manipulating the election system.
Is there ANY way that RICO can be applied agaisnt these criminal organizations who are corrupting the electoral procedure?
Rmember the order is Soap Box, Ballot Box, Jruy Box and Ammunition Box.
The problem is the the NYT, CBS, ABC and others have denied the proper use of the soap box, Moveon and ACORN and others are destroying the ballot box - and activists judges, and big Sorors money and lawyers are destroying the ability to use the jury box.
Which leaves us with only the last resort: the ammunition box.
Pray to God that it never comes to that. But if the left keeps destroying the alternatives, they will be the first ones against the wall.
The short answer is âyes,â RICO can and should be applied. The longer answer involves figuring out what the politicians are willing to face in terms of outcries of âcensorship, censorship.â However, I think the LLL is crossing lines where some of the bad actors need to be put in jail.
In Colorado, these groups could be held to answer under RICO at the federal level, and under Coloradoâs very similar Colorado Organized Crime Control Act, § 18-17-101, C.R.S., et seq. Some very basic elements of the Federal Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1961, et seq. (âRICOâ) are:
Defendants formed an "association" to perpetrate various economic and personal injuries, and are employed by, or associated with, the enterprise.
Defendants have engaged in "racketeering activity," in that Defendants have:
in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1341 (having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises), for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice or attempting so to do, placed in a post office or authorized depository for mail matter, a matter or thing to be sent or delivered by the Postal Service, or have deposited or caused to be deposited any matter or thing whatever to be sent or delivered by any private or commercial interstate carrier, or have taken or received therefrom, any such matter or thing, or have knowingly caused to be delivered by mail or such carrier according to the direction thereon, or at the place at which it is directed to be delivered by the person to whom it is addressed, any such matter or thing; and
in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1343 (having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises), transmitted or caused to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television communication in interstate commerce, any writings, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice.
Defendants have engaged in a "pattern of racketeering activity," in that (within the relevant time) Defendants have engaged in at least two acts of "racketeering," that are related to the conduct of the enterprise.
Defendants have knowingly received income derived, directly or indirectly, from a pattern of racketeering activity in which Defendants participated as principles, and have used such income (or the proceeds derived from the investment or use thereof) in the operation of the enterprise, which affects interstate commerce.
Defendants have through a pattern of racketeering activity knowingly acquired or maintained, directly or indirectly, interest in or control of the enterprise, which affects interstate commerce.
Defendants have knowingly conducted or participated, directly or indirectly, in the enterprise (which affects interstate commerce) through a pattern of racketeering activity.
Defendants have conspired or endeavored to violate the provisions of subsection (a), (b), or (c) of 18 U.S.C. § 1961, et seq.
Now, granted, I pulled this stuff out of a civil complaint (so it looks a bit squirreley) but the criminal RICO cases (and cases under the Colorado counterpart) are very similar to civil cases under those statutes. Unlike a lot of criminal statutes, even if the government doesnât act, any affected private citizen can bring a civil action under the statutes. The main difference is that private plaintiffs collect money damages instead of putting the bad actors in jail.
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"...or have knowingly caused to be delivered by mail or such carrier according to the direction thereon, or at the place at which it is directed to be delivered by the person to whom it is addressed, any such matter or thing; and..."
Oh, great. Now my brain won't work.
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Dave D., LOL.
Sometimes it taks all day just to read a page . . .
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Are any of these lists (precinct voter rolls, criminals, y'all know better than I what lists may exist) computerized? If so, surely its a relatively easy task to cross check? Easier, at least, than doing the whole thing manually, which I'm sure is what the malevolent idiots hope for.
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TW - depending on what Election Registration system a particular state uses, lists of all type are available to the general public.
The trouble with computer verification and cross checking is you have to enter the new registration forms in the system. It really becomes a matter of manpower vs. time remaining until the cutoff date.
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If it's true the voter polls are public record - the Republicans should be printing out the records publically and asking neighbors to verify that those listed as their neighbors are indeed living there.
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This is happening everywhere. Recently, my sister got a call from the Democrats here signing up voters. When she was asked if she was voting for Kerry, she said she wasn't and was voting for Bush. The call ladies response:
"Oh, you're to young to make a decision like that!"
What a bunch of BS.
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Doc, I was working with some of those lists this weekend. At best, they're 75% accurate, more often, it's more like 25%. The parties have enough trouble just finding their own members. I discovered that we had a Democratic party county official on my door-to-door list of supposed Republicans, for instance.
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There is a record number of new voter registrations in TN this year. Some idiot in charge of voter reg in Davidson County (Nashville) was on the radio this morning publicly stating that they would NOT be verifying new registrations because they were so swamped! Free pass for the DNC.
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Mitch, that's a problem you'll encounter with any database, especially if contact info's involved.
Typos, out of date address info, deletions and duplications, poor data linkage causing one or more of the above: any large database will be less than 90% accurate.
On top of which, one can expect any contact list to degrade in quality at a rate of about 15% or more each three months.
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I think we should require re-registration - in person and with proof of citizenship - every 2 or 4 years.
If people are too lazy to go to their local registration office to register then they dont need to be voting. Yes voting is a right - but that does not guarantee that it is easy.
Retired Gen. Tommy Franks launched a four-state campaign swing for President Bush by criticizing Sen. John Kerry's anti-Vietnam War activities and voting record on the military. Franks, former commander of forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, faulted Kerry's votes on major weapons systems and intelligence issues, and against the 1991 Gulf War. ``If his voting record ruled the day, Saddam Hussein would not only be running Iraq but Kuwait,'' Franks told about 200 people Sunday at a Reno rally.
And perhaps most of Arabia.
``The choice is very, very clear. We need decisive, strong, no-backing-down and no-equivocating leadership,'' he said. Franks praised the Democratic challenger's military service during the Vietnam War, but said Kerry's later anti-war activities upset him. ``The men I served with in Vietnam weren't war criminals and I'm proud I served with them,'' Franks said.
Kerry is, too. He didn't used to be, of course, but that was a long time ago, in a galaxy far away, and he wasn't running for president yet...
Kerry spokesman Sean Smith accused Franks of distorting Kerry's Senate voting record. ``He reads (Bush political aide) Karl Rove's talking points very well,'' Smith said. ``John Kerry voted for the largest defense appropriation in American history before voting against it and the largest intelligence appropriation in American history after trying to gut the CIA. No matter how many attacks they make on John Kerry, it won't obscure the fact that George Bush has gotten us into a quagmire in Iraq.'' Kerry never branded any U.S. troops in Vietnam as war criminals, Smith added.
Um, what about Winter Soldier and your 1971 testimony, Senator?
Kinda hard to get away from that, isn't it? (Roll the tape, Kenneth!)
The rally in Nevada - a battleground state where polls show Bush and Kerry running about even - marked Franks' first appearance for Bush since the Republican National Convention. Franks, a registered independent in Florida who has voted for both Republican and Democratic presidential candidates, said he decided to endorse Bush because of his handling of the war against terrorism. Other terrorist attacks during the Clinton administration went largely unanswered by the U.S., he said. ``I know a commander in chief when I see one and there's only one on the ballot,'' Franks said. ``After September 11th, we were blessed to have a commander in chief who said enough is enough. There are two options: to fight them (terrorists) over there or to fight them over here. I'm an over-there-kind-of-guy.''
There's a good idea.
In an interview before the rally, Franks said he doesn't foresee an endless cycle of violence in Iraq, and he thinks violence will diminish after the Nov. 2 election. ``I believe they (insurgents) are influenced by what they see in our media,'' he told The Associated Press. ``They see if they blow something up it's front-page news ... (and) the presidential candidates will talk about it. After Nov. 2, that dynamic will leave. The problem won't go away, but it'll be diminished ... This will be a long process, but there will come a time when the insurgents have less opportunity to create mischief for us,'' he said.
That's a slap that should rattle the teeth of the MSM, but I think they're impervious.
Franks said he also expects the January elections in Iraq to be held as scheduled, and foresees the day when U.S. troops will leave there. ``Some say that day will never come, but I say it'll come and probably sooner than later,'' he said. ``(But) we ought to stay away from time frames and time schedules. The quickest way to give an advantage to the enemy is to set deadlines.''
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Want to know something about leadership and how you make things happen in tough areas like Afghanistan and Iraq? Read Tommy Franks' autobiography American Soldier. It is a wonderful example how an American soldier learned what good leadership is, how to apply it, and its effects. Great read!
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Years late in completing the simplest first step - and they still cut a monstrous loophole (which makes it a complete joke) for the Whore of Whores, Chirac. "Tightening" restrictions on travel visas for Generals to Europe - woohoo, that'll show 'em. Abject failure.
King Norodom Sihanouk declared yesterday that his son, Prince Norodom Sihamoni, was ready to accept the throne to resolve a political crisis triggered last week when the monarch announced he would abdicate.
"I quit, and you can't stop me!"
The pledge came in a letter read on Cambodian state television, hours after the prime minister, Hun Sen, said lawmakers had to work day and night to complete the process of choosing a new king or risk the country becoming a republic. King Sihanouk's letter from Beijing said the 51-year-old Sihamoni - better known for his ballet than political skills - would make a suitable king and was "a neutral and impartial person who is not engaged in politics".
Sorta like Prince Charles.
The king said his son did not want to be king but would take the job if selected by the throne council, which must meet an October 14 deadline to chose a new ruler. King Sihanouk noted that his more politically experienced eldest son, Prince Norodom Ranariddh, had declined to be considered for the post.
He's afraid of guns...
The 81-year-old king bewildered his countrymen with his abdication announcement last Thursday, the same day Mr Hun Sen left for a summit of Asian and European leaders in Vietnam. Prince Ranariddh, head of the national assembly, flew to Beijing on Saturday to try to persuade his father to change his mind. King Sihanouk, who has since January been mostly in the Chinese capital to receive health treatment, said yesterday he was "very moved" by calls for him to stay in power.
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Like an Asian Prince Charles in a tutu. Beautiful!
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Cool.
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Very cool, Barbara!
Considering that the Boomer's long suit is quiet stealth instead of speed. I foresee an extended cruise between Taiwan and North Korea in these boats' future.
These subs have become much more lethal in their newest configurations. With many, many Cruise Missiles. Command & Control. Plus the addition of SEALs and Delivery Systems.
Excellent examples of Deterrence and Offensive Capability to add to the table!
Jack.
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Amazing stuff. However, down the line I hope that they can adapt a Trident for Glomar Explorer-type missions. This includes everything from undersea recovery (including hot nuclear recovery, the Trident class already has an enormous amount of lead for ballast), deep water experimental platform, and *importantly* minerological survey missions. There are literally quadrillions of dollars of untapped undersea resources that need to be mapped as a first step to exploitation. A single submarine doing this would be to undersea research what the Hubble telescope is to astronomy.
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I thought the whole 'untold riches on the seafloor' (aka magnesium nodules) was just a cover story for the Glomar Explorer to go snatch up a rooski sub.
http://www.hazegray.org/faq/smn7.htm#G12
I do recall the usual 3rd world suspects at the UN spinning up into a complete tizzy over the idea that the rapacious capitalist bastards were stealing the ocean's weath.
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60 seals locked into a sewer pipe with 120 submariners. Oh to be a fly on the bulkhead. Talk about 'cultures in confict'. The seals are insufferable. Submariners are a bit more humble (a bit). They have a very specific unwritten code of conduct onboard that the seals are bound to violate just in the process of being locked-up, bored seals. The code has evolved over decades of long patrols. It is taught by word of mouth and example. Will the seals ask, listen and observe let alone care for the subtle courtesies of the submariners. Crew peace and morale hang on the answer. If the courtesies are observed all will be peace and harmony, if not, there will be trouble. Also the crew hates all riders on principle. Riders represent nothing but extra work for an overworked crew. Riders are considered oxygen-breathing, CO2-producing, chow-eating, commode-filling space-filling, noise-making mess-deck-sitting no-loads. But these are not ordinary riders. They are seals. They cut a wide swath. The crew is used to dominating riders. They won't be able to get over on the seals....much. Let the games begin. I expect they'll figure a way to get along in the end, but there will be 'incidents'. The Auxiliary Division Chief on the Ohio is a former shipmate of mine. I'll ping him, but he probably won't comment. It's still the silent service.
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Moose, the NR-1 does just the sort of thing you are talking about. It can go deep, but, alas, not to the really deep water. It has wheels (Goodyear truck tires to be exact) along the keel that allow it to "drive" on the ocean floor. I worked for 2 guys that were on the NR-1, one of them is semi-famous in the submarine force for driving the NR-1 off the continental shelf. (Watch out, that first step is a doozy.) See the book Dark Waters for details on that event and more.
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Excellent. So un-Navy to stop, think, and figure out awesome uses for what they have instead of dreaming up gear they don't have. Bravo! Serious kudos for this break with the past. 150 Cruise missiles launched from under the bad guys' nose without warning of any kind and 60 Seals? Shit - that's a full-scale invasion in one go! Again, way to GO, Navy!
Has Skeery revealed that he was a Super Duper Extra-Special Secret Seal, yet?
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Clearly somone needs to put parking curbs along the edge of the continental shelves to prevent that kind of thing. Perhaps yellow lines to demarcate the lanes so that subs trundling along on their truck tires in the opposite direction don't cause accidents. And broken lines to show that passing is permitted where the shelf widens enough.
Ohmigod, what an image, Zpaz! I nearly fell off my chair!
The government of Guinea-Bissau has signed an agreement with a group of soldiers who staged a mutiny last week, promising them an amnesty and the appointment of a new military high command. The memorandum of understanding, signed on Sunday night, pardons the mutineers who took to the streets of Bissau demanding the settlement of pay arrears. It also pardons all other military personnel who took part in military uprisings since the country's first coup d'etat in 1980. However, before the amnesty becomes effective, it must be endorsed by parliament.
They'll do that, or the parliament will get shot up...
The agreement, which was signed by Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior, stipulated that President Henrique Rosa, should appoint a new chief of staff of the armed forces.
"Hey! We need a new chief of staff! This guy's dead!"
The soldiers who took part in last week's uprising killed the previous head of the armed forces, General Verissimo Correia Seabra, along with Colonel Domingos de Barros, the head of human resources of the military establishment. The commanders of the army, navy and air force, and several other high-ranking officers went into hiding when the mutiny began on Wednesday. Diplomatic sources said they had taken refuge in western embassies and were still there on Monday.
"Come out? Is it over yet?"
The army mutiny was staged by a batallion of 600 soldiers which recently completed a nine-month tour with the UN peacekeeping force in Liberia. However, it did not spread to the rest of the armed forces. Most military units remained sidelined from the dispute.
"You guys got any popcorn?"
The mutineers themselves insisted all along that they were simply demanding the payment of long-standing salary arrears and the improvement of poor living conditions in military barracks. However diplomats in West Africa said there also appears to have been a political agenda behind the revolt, which Portugal, the former colonial power in Guinea-Bissau, described as attempted coup. Certainly, their main achievements have been political. The mutineers have got rid of the head of the armed forces and have secured impunity from prosecution for all those who attempted to overthrow successive governments over the past 24 years.
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Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party has claimed victory in a weekend by-election after the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) failed to field candidates for the local poll. ZANU-PF retained the Masvingo district parliamentary seat in southern Zimbabwe, which fell vacant after the death last month of 69-year-old Eddison Zvobgo, a founding member of ZANU-PF. The ruling party now holds 98 of 150 seats in parliament, two short of the two-thirds majority that would allow it to amend the constitution. It was the second by-election in a month to be boycotted by the MDC, in line with a decision the party took in September to suspend its participation in all elections until electoral reforms were made. Last month ZANU-PF won an unopposed seat in the Seke district.
This is a bad move on the MDC's part, though I suppose it is easier on the candidates. When you leave the field before the game's over, you always lose.
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Well, it certainly worked as a strategy for the Iranian "moderates."
FWIW, my conclusion: with hybrid cars selling faster than they are being produced, U.S. will cut gasoline needs by 20-30% w/in decade Note: only Wall Street Journal subscribers can access, so I give you the entire article Honda's New Hybrid Takes New Tack: It's a Feel-Good Car, Not a Do-Good Car
The gas-electric hybrid-car market isn't up to Baskin-Robbins's level yet, but it's about to get some important new flavors. In December, Honda plans to roll out the next major hybrid entry: a gas-electric version of its best-selling model, the Honda Accord sedan. The first gas-electric hybrid cars offered in the U.S. market came in one style: Science Project. Honda's Insight and the first edition of the Toyota Prius generated more media buzz than sales, mainly because they were tiny, not very powerful cars once you got past the initial "wow!" of driving a car that promised to go as much as 70 miles on a gallon of gas.
Honda's new gas-electric hybrid Accord.
The Accord Hybrid, which I got to drive briefly last week, is another proposition entirely. This time, Honda is using its hybrid technology to make a small, six-cylinder engine feel like a beefy, large-displacement six from Detroit or Munich -- but with the fuel economy of a four-cylinder Honda Civic.
The Accord Hybrid's purpose isn't just to give the Honda brand a green halo. It's to give the midpriced model line -- which trades largely on its reputation for durability and practicality -- some extra prestige with consumers who like action when they hit the gas. The Hybrid Accord will be rated at 255 horsepower, compared with 240 for the regular Accord V-6, and will generate 9% more torque. Torque is the force that you feel in your fanny when you hit the gas; by adding what amounts to an extra motor and a battery pack to the stock 3.0 liter Accord V-6, Honda has produced a car that has more of it than a 3.8 liter V-6 Buick LeSabre -- the epitome of large-displacement Detroit sixes. This is a difference you can feel. The Hybrid Accord accelerates with far more authority than its nonhybrid sibling. Hey, that thing got a Hybrid in it? Sweet!
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good work, TW, it's all good. Whatever uses less oil gives less money to Saudi Wahhabists, which equals less money being used to radicalise muslims and train jihadis.
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Not so fast. The Saudis know how the game works. If gas prices rise so fast that they cause a sharp increase in conservation and fuel-efficient car purchases, then OPEC will do all in its power to cause prices to come down sufficiently to kneecap the conservation/fuel-efficiency baby before it learns to stand on its own.
We've been here before. Oil prices tanked in the 1990s, and Detroit's customers went right back to purchasing 12-mpg gas guzzlers again.
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Couple of more features on the Dodge truck(called Contractors special).It also features a hydralic system that stores prasure upon brakeing for a stop,then release' the preasure to assit in acceleration.The truck also has an panel on the right rear that sports 110v electrical outlets.
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Hybrid cars mileage don't match their hype and are not much better than gasoline engines. They certainly don't justify their price diffential. The crux of the matter is to drastically reduce oil as the fuel for transportation. The only practical way to do that are to:
1. Force everyone to drive Geo Metros.
2. Build several hundred nuclear plants and mass manufacture new electric cars (few people drive more than the range of an electric) or hydrogen cars (in the long term). Long haul transport can still use oil based fuels.
Hybrid Mileage Comes Up Short
Honda's Civic Hybrid is rated by the EPA to get 47 miles per gallon in the city, and 48 mpg on the highway. After nearly 1,000 miles of mostly city driving, Blackshaw was getting 31.4 mpg.
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Data from independent product-testing organization Consumer Reports indicates that hybrid cars get less than 60 percent of EPA estimates while navigating city streets. In Consumer Reports' real-world driving test, the Civic Hybrid averaged 26 mpg in the city, while the Toyota Prius averaged 35 mpg, much less than their respective EPA estimates of 47 and 60 mpg. Hybrid cars performed much closer to EPA estimates in Consumer Reports' highway tests.
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What percentage of oil does the national fleet consume? I thought it was about 25%. Significant but we need to get smart quick to cut loose from the mid-East crazies. Bush mentioned development of the hydrogen powered car. Hydrogen is plentiful but requires energy to extract. Also a serious infrastructure would need to be developed to support a hydrogen car.
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http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/usa.html#oil The United States consumed an average of about 20.0 MMBD of oil in 2003, up from 19.8 MMBD in 2002. Of this, 8.9 MMBD (or 45% of the total) was motor gasoline, 4.8 MMBD (24%) "other oils" 3.9 MMBD (20%) distillate fuel oil, 1.6 MMBD (8%) jet fuel, and 0.77 million bbl/d (4%) residual fuel oil.
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The United States averaged total gross oil (crude and products) imports of an estimated 12.2 MMBD during 2003, representing around 62% of total U.S. oil demand. Over two-fifths of this oil came from OPEC nations, with Persian Gulf sources accounting for about one-fifth of total U.S. oil imports. Overall, the top suppliers of oil (crude and refined products) to the United States during 2003 were Canada (2.1 MMBD), Saudi Arabia (1.8 MMBD), Mexico (1.6 MMBD), and Venezuela (1.4 MMBD).
If we can replace just 50% of gasoline usage with nuclear generated electric cars, it would replace twice our Persian Gulf oil imports.
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Hybrid cars ar OK, but we urgently need to build nuclear plants. It will deny Sauds of $$$$$$$$ to promote hate, will reduce our trade deficit by hundreds of billions per year and will create thousand of jobs to design, bulid and operate the plants. There is no any discussion in the media or government on the topic. I WONDER WHY???
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Nuclear is safe. Environmentalists went crazy after 3-Mile Island. 3-Mile Island was a really story in containment of an incident (think donut eating guy on Holiday Inn commercials) We don't usually hear that story. New builds were scuttled. france gets 70% of its energy from nuclear--I have not heard of any problems. One thing they got right. There was a project at Oak Ridge at one time to look into nuclear-powered aircraft. The breeder reactor project at Oak Ridge was nearly completed and got shut down by Congress. Political weasels. We need to get back to building nuclear plants. Feasibility of nuclear cars???
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I'm currently running around 99% spam. If I don't answer your emails, it's probably because I missed them in the junk mail. I treasure real emails, from real people...
A poll of 1,000 computer users by internet firm Yahoo! found that one in four had been fooled into opening unwanted messages believing them to be genuine. Virtually everyone surveyed said junk e-mails were annoying but most had no idea what to do about the problem.
Ideas that don't involve homicide, that is...
Internet experts advise users never to reply to a junk e-mail, open an attachment or forward it to a friend. Other advice includes treating e-mail addresses like a phone number and not giving them out randomly. Computer users are urged to use anti-junk technologies to guard against receiving spam. Bulk unsolicited emails account for over 60 per cent of all email traffic on the internet, according to the Office of Fair Trading. That is up from under half in 2003 and under 10 per cent in 2001. It is believed that over 80 per cent of spam received by UK internet users originates from overseas. In one case, Italian consumers were targeted by spam originating in the UK, which directed recipients to a cookery website with the modem connection redirected to a premium rate line. Service provider Yahoo! catches and diverts one billion spam messages every day. Unsolicited emails cost US business billions of pounds in 2002 in lost time and production.
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The office IT guy gave us the option of installing IHateSpam; so far, it's worked beautifully for us.
Earthlink has a proprietary spam filter that catches 80-90% of the junk on my home account.
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Yahoo mail works well,almost all spam and various other junk mail goes into the bulk folder and is automaticaly deleted.
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Bright Mail here. It's doing a reasonable job. The number of spam I have to strain out of my inbox mailbox can now be counted on one hand. The Spam folder, on the other hand, is a simple click on the "follow up flag" group and hit "Del".
It used to take an hour or so every day. And that was just my work email. (How that addr got out, I'll never be sure.)
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Somebody should check to see how much spam levels drop.
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Laughed my butt off when I read the previous comment. Brilliant.
The problem is I don't think its work for them so much as a game. My opinion changed when I read about the NIgerian cosmonaut trapped on the supersecret Mir 2. Certainly they couldn't expect anyone with actual money to buy into that scam could they?
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What? There's a Nigerian astronaut trapped on the Mir? Damn! That's outrageous! Who do I see to bitch too? I'll light a candle and hold a bake sale.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Offices that house President Bush's re-election campaign in Spokane were broken into and vandalized last night, the latest in a string of crimes at Republican offices across the country. Workers arriving this morning found a hole smashed through the wall from an adjacent, vacant office. Bush campaign officials say a small amount of petty cash is missing and a computer and television had been moved and left near the hole. 
